2008 - Arts / Vie artistique
Chebucto Heights Elementary School’s Cultural Heritage- Halifax, NS
Nova Scotia has a particularly rich textile heritage, ranging from traditional crafts such as rug hooking and knitting to Native American beading, felting and embroidery with coloured porcupine quills, to personal stories and family traditions being transmitted through traditional quilting, to rather contemporary textile expressions. While supporting core curricular activities in social studies, language arts and visual arts, this project allows our students to work with a number of different local textile artists to explore this rich local heritage and link it to their family history.